Retards are why we cannot have good things

TOP said:
That term and many versions... I'm never surprised at what they say here anymore... considering... it's just a good thing they spend most of their time here and not out in the real world... and I'd be willing to bet that they don't talk like that in the grocery store or doctor's office....
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you might be surprised about that. I've hears it often enough.
 
Phantasmal said:
It may be silly to you, but it isn’t to the people affected and trying to affirm to others who they are.
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That's true, which is why I use whatever their preference is. It's serious to some. But it is a stupid thing to get distraught over, what someone else prefers to be called, eh?
 
Celticguy said:
you might be surprised about that. I've heard it often enough.
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You're right about the R word and other vulgarities....Do you think they rant and rage, scream death to everyone, and threaten at the grocery and the Doctor's office, though? And in their community in general? There might very well be a few here on their neighborhood radar...they would be here...:laugh:
Most--the majority--are just weary. worn out keyboard warriors, though...;)
 
Althea said:
I haven't had the issue yet with the pronoun thing. But we're old and we don't usually hang out with adolescents that often in social settings.

20 years ago, I had an aged, balding not very feminine looking friend who transitioned to female. This was long before it was fashionable.

He was a guy that I saw a handful of times/year at pool tournaments, but I knew him for a while.

He looked like an idiot. His feet were often too big for his high heels, his wig was cheap, and his huge hands weren't very feminine. He actually looked a lot like Katilin Jenner. Awkward when he walked, and he looked nothing like a woman.

We knew he was transitioning for quite some time, and I honestly had to prepare myself the first time I saw him. I saw him stumbling toward me with heels on, and had to turn away to hide my laughter. But...I spoke to him as I normally did, and if he was happy then so be it. He changed his name twice because going from Bill to Billy evidently was confusing to some. So he settled on Debbie.

Debbie died of prostate cancer not long after becoming a woman, but not before he went on a spree of beating up women in gay bars.

Bill was a kind, gentle, quiet man before his transition. I'm really not sure what happened to him.


Point is, when I speak of transgender issues w/respect to sports, I'm not just parroting talking points. Unlike most in the debate, I actually had a trans. friend since before his transition.
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Poor Debbie/Bill. Cannot even imagine. Why did he turn violent towards women, do you think it was envy and frustration?

We have a trans person in our family. She has gone through literal hell in her short life (she is in her 40s now). People who dish on the trans folks have no idea what their lives are like. None. To me it's not a choice thing, it's how they were born. As is true of the others in the LGBTQ community, few of us would willingly choose to be scorned, mocked, beat up, denied a job, feared, hated, and lonely.
 
Althea said:
Exactly. It's a pain when you're active in discussions and the quotes page is taken up with quotes from people you haven't addressed in years.

Why do they bother?
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I don't know, some kind of diarrhea of the keyboard, Forum Tourettes? I'll often get 7-8 notifications, for instance, from Into the Night. Have had him on ignore for years, but he still replies to my posts, often in a mass fashion. They knock the posts that you *want* to see and respond to off the list, to be forever lost unless you stumble across one or can remember the threads you last posted in.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
That's true, which is why I use whatever their preference is. It's serious to some. But it is a stupid thing to get distraught over, what someone else prefers to be called, eh?
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I have come to realize you aren’t going to teach old dogs new tricks. I’m happy the younger folks are far more accepting. They are my hope.
 
Celticguy said:
you might be surprised about that. I've hears it often enough.
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This is the definition I use: informal + offensive : a foolish or stupid person.

No different from "dumb", "stupid" and assorted words.

Besides, calling people here "retards" is actually a compliment to the genuine mentally challenged people because those people make them regular Einstein.
 
TOP said:
Good question...and
if you're threadbanned why bother to respond to a post on that thread by copying and reposting on Another? Silly...right? and odd there is no rule against that...;)
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Even though you and your twisted sister have begged and groveled before Damo to make it so? :laugh:

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Look at what the Great Fruitcake Teacher is saying!!!!! :rofl2:

Um yes I do use offensive words in real life around people. The Deaf community uses profanity a lot to get point across and it's hilarious. It's no holds barred for us.
 
Althea said:
You know how boards go. Every so often there is an issue that creates threads with hundreds of posts in a short period of time. If I post with coffee in the morning, and return hours later after work, my notifications are full.

I haven't figured out a way to find buried notifications yet.
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I wonder if the forum software allows you to change how many to display, like it does with posts per page?
 
Althea said:
For some reason, I get forgotten in thread ban lists.

I don't thread ban people, and I don't ever groan posts. I have seen people start a thread that calls out a member, but said member is thread banned.

It makes sense to start a different thread.

Same applies for troll threads with titles that are clearly lies. They thread ban everyone who has ever disagreed with them. So intelligent discussion on the topic must take place in a different thread.
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Ah yes, a typical Earl tactic. It's funny that Toxic is whining about this. She has had the OP thread-ban everyone who scares or enrages or disagrees with her, on her special "tribute thread." Some of the bannees are ppl who have not posted here in years, or are even actual people! lol
 
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